LG

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In Short

LG is a South Korean consumer electronics company that makes — among other things — smartphones, tablets and computers that are sold around the world. It also has many subdivisions that make many of the components that are used by its own smartphones and tablets, as well as sourced by several other major phone manufacturers. LG is probably best known for the displays, chips and batteries it makes for mobile devices.

The vast majority of all phones and tablets LG makes run Android, while its computers run Windows and now Chrome OS. Thanks to its massive scale, LG has several different smartphone lines that bring its products to a variety of price points in markets around the world. Although many wouldn't normally think it, the company has been gaining phone market share both in its home country of South Korea — where it competes directly with Samsung — and in Western markets in recent years.

For many years, LG's phones followed the "Optimus" brand, which saw the name tacked onto most devices that were sold. Since the end of 2013, LG has moved to single letters that denote the different smartphone lines — aka the "L Series" and "F Series" — with the best-known devices in the Western markets taking the "G Series" name, such as the G2, G Pro 2 and G Flex.

LG's 2014 flagship is the LG G3, a large Android smartphone with the first quad HD display. LG also had one of the first Android Wear smartwatches and is expected to roll out more this year.

14 April 2015 11By Rich EdmondsLG today announced a new line-up of Music Flow wireless speakers with support for Google Cast. The new audio product range will enable you to stream music straight from a compatible device....

02 April 2015 112By Dan Thorp-LancasterLG announced today that it has started mass production on a new 5.5-inch QHD display panel which is set to appear in a flagship smartphone at the end of this month (hint: G4)....

26 March 2015 14By Rich EdmondsThe LG Watch Urbane LTE is set to go on sale in South Korea on March 27. Priced at 650,000 KRW ($590), the company will use its premium range of watches to compete directly with the Apple Watch....

19 March 2015 300By Alex DobieThere's much speculation each year surrounding who Google will pick to manufacture the next Nexus phone or tablet. And while in recent weeks rumors have swirled around the possibility of a Huawei-made Nexus, a report from a Korean publication claims this may be LG's year....

02 March 2015 8By Harish Jonnalagadda[custom:mwc15]Want to watch all the highlights from LG's event at Mobile World Congress? You can do so from the video above. If you're interested in seeing the event in its entirety, check out the video below of the 20-minute press conference....

24 February 2015 39By Rich EdmondsSamsung has entered into an agreement with LG and Apple to supply both companies with new 20nm LPDDR4 DRAM chips for upcoming smartphones. The deal would see Samsung fulfill Apple's demand for memory chips for the next iPhone, while LG would use the components for the G4...

29 January 2015 70By John CallahamLG executives have admitted today there were issues with the first batch of the Snapdragon 810 chips from Qualcomm. However, the smartphone company said those issues have been fixed and won't delay the launch of their recently announced LG G Flex 2 smartphone....

29 January 2015 59By Harish JonnalagaddaLG has plenty to be excited about, as the South Korean manufacturer's financial results for 2014 indicate that it sold 59.1 million smartphones in 2014, an increase of 24 percent from the previous year...

22 January 2015 104By Harish JonnalagaddaYesterday, a report by Bloomberg stated that Samsung was ditching Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 in the Galaxy S6 due to overheating issues, with the manufacturer opting to go with its in-house Exynos processor instead...

06 January 2015 24By Alex Dobie**Update Jan. 7: Turns out when we were told this watch was running a variation of Android Wear, that wasn't exactly correct. Check out our exclusive hands-on!Update: We have confirmation from LG that this is an LG watch made for Audi, running a variation of Android Wear...

05 January 2015 18By John Callaham
Both AT&T and Sprint have confirmed as part of CES 2015 they will sell the newly revealed LG G Flex 2 smartphone, with Sprint confirming that they will offer the phone in an exclusive "Volcano Red" color....

05 January 2015 5By Phil NickinsonWe're live this morning from LG's press conference ahead of CES in Las Vegas. Expect to see some serious connected kitchen action, as well as new TVs and more new TVs. And if the stars align just right, we'll probably see a new phone or two as well.
Join us at 8 a.m. PST — that's 11 a.m...

22 December 2014 7By Dan Thorp-LancasterLG has just announced a new set of Wi-Fi-enabled speakers aimed at competing with Sonos for a spot in your home. In total, the company is introducing three new speakers (one of which is its first battery powered offering) as part of its Music Flow series which can be controlled from Android devices....

21 December 2014 8By Dan Thorp-LancasterLG may have launched the LTE version of its G Pad 8.0 tablet earlier this year, but it looks like it's taken the Korean giant until now to roll it out in its domestic market. LG has announced today that the G Pad 8.0 LTE is now available for purchase in South Korea at a price of ₩ 330,000....

27 November 2014 13By Simon SageFollowing corporate restructuring, LG's mobile division has a new CEO, Juno Cho. He has been the president and COO of the LG Corp., the parent company of LG Electronics, and has been in the company since 1986...